Transformation of the ETF Industry: An Examination of Smart Beta, Fixed Income, Robots and Other Trends, Hosted By:

Deborah Fuhr

Managing Partner and Co-founder

ETFGI

Kristine Delano

Managing Director

NextShares Solutions LLC

Natalie Zahradnik

Executive Vice President, ETF Strategist

PIMCO

Jillian DelSignore

Head of ETF Distribution

J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Linda Zhang

Founder

Purview Investments

2:20 PM

The Launchpad: Exploring New ETFs

233 ETFS were launched in 2016, 284 were launched in 2015, while 202 were launched in 2014. Will 2017 see this rate keep up?

What strategies are seeing the most growth? Which strategies are just being piloted? Which Sectors are most in demand?

What make a launch successful? What makes a launch a failure? Does a failed launch necessarily mean a shut down or can it turn around? Similarly, after a successful launch—how do you manage expectations, growth and returns? Success

What new products in 2017 are the most exciting?

Doug Peta

Chief ETF Strategist

BCA Research

Mebane Faber

Chief Investment Officer

Cambria Investment Management

Tom Lydon

Editor

ETF Trends

Stephen Clarke

President

NextShares Solutions LLC

Paul Kim

Managing Director, ETF Strategy

Principal Global Investors

3:00 PM

Networking Break

3:20 PM

Evaluating the GICS Sector Expansion

What has the Impact of the GICS sector expansion been? How have exposures been recalibrated?

What are the implications for advisors? Implications for PMs?

What’s next for Real Estate? What’s next for Copper? Can we expect another expansion?

How has the expansion impacted Indexes and ETFs? Will there be more products created to reflect the expansion?

Mark Leibovit

Chief Market Strategist/Host

LeibovitVRNewsletters.com/ Wall Street Raw Radio

Deepika Sharma

Managing Director

Astor Investment Management, LLC

Brad Case

Senior Vice President

NAREIT

Philip Murphy

Vice President, North American Equities

S&P Dow Jones Indices

Mannik Dhillon

President

Victory Shares

4:00 PM

Tomorrow’s Investment Opportunities Today

More and more investment products are looking to capitalize on emerging demographic trends and societal attitudes. We examine how unfolding trends will provide opportunities for outsized returns in your portfolio—today and tomorrow!

Understanding the demographic dynamics at play—forecasting the future. State of play regarding women and minority led businesses.

Investors have fallen in love with indexing in recent years, but are these man-made creations worthy of their worship? Is there is a difference between passive investing and indexing? Are there too many indices?

Past is NOT prologue. With the proliferation of smart beta and factor strategies, investors should be vigilant to the pitfalls of data mining and performance chasing. Relative valuations can predict the long-term future returns of strategies and factors —not with any short-term precision— but well enough to add material value.

Robert Arnott

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Research Affiliates, LLC

10:00 AM

Institutional Portfolios: Insights and Observations

Fund flows from Institutional investors have reached record highs, with seemingly no end to the trend in sight. This panel will explore the impact that this market move is having on the investment industry as a whole and will take a deeper dive into the factors driving it.

How much money has flown into the passive investing space? How much is projected to continue to flow? How much has been allocated to indexing? How much to ETFs? How do these investors utilize ETFs? How do they utilize indexing?

Which products are “getting the most love”? How can an ETF provider create more specialized product for the segment? What is the opportunity for specialized, bespoke product creation? How can an ETF Active Manager create portfolios for these client types?

What sort of structural challenges does this pose? What is the impact on fixed income ETFs? How will this change the overall portfolio allocation methodology?

Karen Schenone

Fixed Income Product Strategist

BlackRock

Peter Ehret

‎Director of Internal Credit

Employees Retirement System of Texas

Peter Tirp

CIO

Kern County Employees' Retirement Association

Michael Viteri

Senior Investment Officer Public Equity

Oregon State Treasury

Kirk Sims

Investment Officer

Teachers Retirement System of Illinois

10:35 AM

Networking Break

11:00 AM

Keynote Presentation

Jeffrey Gundlach

Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer

DoubleLine

12:00 PM

Smart Beta: Further Down the Road

With over $500 billion in Smart Beta product to select from, the time for debating the meaning of smart beta may be over. Along with the growth in AUM, how diverse have the product offerings become? How complex will products become as AI/machine learning becomes increasingly advanced. Will there be any portfolios left, without smart beta exposure?

How do investors mange Implementation Risk? Exposure Risk? Absolute/Relative Risk? How can you use Smart Beta to enhance portfolio returns in a down cycle?

Moving beyond the basics: what are the ways that smart beta can be used to construct dynamic portfolios? How can inefficiencies be exploited?

What is the future of smart beta? Will it fully replace active management? What new styles will emerge? Will AI eventually replace portfolio managers?

Nir Kaissar

Columnist

Bloomberg Opinion

Deborah Fuhr

Managing Partner and Co-founder

ETFGI

Jason Stoneberg

Director of Research and Product Development

Invesco PowerShares

Jillian DelSignore

Head of ETF Distribution

J.P. Morgan Asset Management

David Mazza

Senior Vice President

OppenheimerFunds

12:45 PM

Lunch and William F. Sharpe Awards Presentation

Track A: Evidence Based Investing Stream

1:50 PM Track A

Using a Four Letter Word to Grow AUM

The old advisor value proposition of “better returns” was replaced by trying to convince clients to focus only on long-term results. But humans react to risk in the short term. Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein teaches how advisors can use a whiteboard marker to put risk and the short term at the center of how they engage with clients, winning trust, AUM dollars and driving client retention and satisfaction.

Aaron Klein

CEO

Riskalyze

2:30 PM Track A

Is Economics an Evidence-Based Proposition

Can investors make use of economic data in formulating strategies or managing expectations? Are economics an art or a science?

Ben Carlson

Director of Institutional Asset Management

Ritholtz Wealth Management

Bill McBride

Writer

Calculated Risk

Mark Dow

Founder

Dow Global Advisors

Cullen Roche

Founder

Orcam Financial Group

Tim Duy

Professor of Practice

University of Oregon

3:10 PM

Networking Break

3:40 PM Track A

How Important is Investor Behavior?

What does the evidence say about the role of investor behavior in terms of long-term returns? How can professionals encourage the right attitudes and habits of their clients?

Robin Powell

Director

Regis Media

Dan Egan

Director of Behavioral Finance and Investments

Betterment

Robert Seawright

Chief Investment & Information Officer

Madison Avenue Securities

Brian Portnoy

Director of Investment Education

Virtus Investment Partners

Nicholas Carr

Founder/President

Foundation FinLit

4:20 PM Track A

Are Liquid Alternatives Evidence-Based?

Ted Seides

Chief Investment Officer

Hidden Brook Investments, LLC

Alex Knapp

Investment Specialist

Aviva Investors

Ricardo Cortez

Co-CEO

Broadmark Asset Management, LLC

Tim Everett

Institutional Portfolio Manager

K2 Advisors

Track B: Portfolio Management Stream

1:50 PM Track B

Europe Post-Brexit

Taking a close look at Europe one year after the Brexit—what has changed, what has remained the same and where do the investment opportunities lie?

Are Southern European countries doomed to fail? What will happen to a post-Merkel Germany and a more nationalist France?

How will the continued rise of populism shape the markets? Will the Euro be replaced?

Where are the opportunities? Are the Baltic States and Scandinavian countries properly valued? How about central Europe and post-Soviet States?

Vinny Catalano

Member, Chief Macro Strategist

Adriatic Capital Partners

Mike Arone

Chief Investment Strategist, SPDR

State Street Global Advisors

J.C Torres

Co-Founder

Solstein Capital

David Spangler

Senior Investment Strategist

Thrivent Asset Management

2:30 PM Track B

Interest Rate Strategies

Since the Fed raised rates slightly in December, consumer rates spiked. How has that translated into investment portfolios? What are the best passive products/strategies for a rising rate environment?

Assuming that rates will not continue to rise past this low threshold—what strategies exist for investors to succeed in a stagnant rate environment?

Negative rates are a reality in many parts of the world—are there existing products that tackle this issue? If so how?

What would a rate neutral strategy consist of?

Ari Weinberg

Contributor

The Wall Street Journal

Kevin Yousif

Chief Investment Officer

LS Investment Advisors

Allan Roth

Founder

Wealth Logic, LLC

Ed Kerschner

Chief Portfolio Strategist

Columbia Threadneedle

3:10 PM

Networking Break

3:40 PM Track B

Decisions, Decisions: Determining Which Factors Matter Most

How many factors do you need to make a dynamic portfolio? How many are too many? 10? 20? Can you accurately predict characteristics of a multi-factor model? How do you weigh the factors? Does there need to be a correlating number of factors and positions?

Getting technical—how often should a portfolio rebalance? Should that be on autopilot? How challenging does that become as the number of factors and positions increase? How diverse should a portfolio be? How to avoid diversification in name only

How to avoid creating Goldilocks portfolios. The difficulty of ex-ante predictions. Aiming for premia capture, or risk mitigation? Which way does your portfolio tilt? How many asset classes do you cover? Long only, long-biased or long short?

At long last, can we replicate the systematic exposure and alpha generating properties of active managers?

Feifei Li

Director, Head of Investment Management

Research Affiliates, LLC

Brian Burke

AVP, ETF Research

ALPS

John Feyerer

Vice President, ETF Product Management

Invesco PowerShares

Yasmin Dahya

Executive Director-ETFS

JP Morgan Asset Management

Craig Lazzara

Managing Director

S&P Dow Jones Indices

4:20 PM Track B

ESG ETFs: A Niche Segment Matures

The overall ESG investing universe has topped $21T, ETFs however, only represented a sliver of that dollar figure (think low billions). 2016, was a breakout year that saw numerous marque launches, 2017 seems to be poised to build on that momentum and steer towards maturity. Our panel of experts will discuss how growth and maturation are inevitable and what trends to be on the lookout for.

What changes to established industries can ETF products exploit? Green bonds? Electric cars? How have Millennials shaped the landscape? Will fossil fuel divestment continue? How will things change after SASB is finalized? Will Morningstar’s Sustainability Rating drive growth?

Negative and positive screening are relatively straightforward, but how have incremental improvements made product/portfolio construction easier and more accurate? Can new and future ETFs look forward to a more robust engagement screens?

With Trump in the Whitehouse and an Oil Baron heading the State department—what is the outlook for ESG investors? Positive? Proceed with caution? What is the best case scenario? Worst case scenario? How many ESG offerings can we reasonably expect to see by 2020? Which market sectors will benefit the most by growth in ESG investing? Which ones will be changes the most?

Dana Hollinger

Vice Chair of Finance and Administration Committee

CalPERS

Perth Tolle

Founder

Life + Liberty Indexes

Dan Lefkovitz

Content Strategist, Indexes

Morningstar, Inc.

Cara Barr

Consultant

OppenheimerFunds

Blair duQuesnay

Investment Advisor and Financial Planner

Ritholtz Wealth Management

Track C - Market Drilldown Stream

1:50 PM Track C

Understanding & Exploiting Volatility

Is there any real risk in passive? How to gauge volatility in today’s markets? How to use ETFs and Indexing to combat portfolio swings? What are the individual drivers of volatility and what products exist to block them?

How to construct a portfolio to dampen vol? When is volatility good for your portfolio? How do you approach volatility? Are you short or long vol? If you are long what is your approach, how are you protecting your portfolio? If you are short vol how are you harvesting risk premiums? How do you enhance your return on risk?

What sectors are less volatile? How are you weighting your allocations? Are you churning and rotating? What are the costs associated with volatility linked Indexes and ETFs? What sorts of index/ETF strategies can be used to mitigate volatility? Should long-term investors care about short-term volatility? How should investors evaluate low volatility strategies?

Is low volatility or low beta a return-generating “factor” in the same way that value or small size are thought of as factors? What causes this effect? Will it persist? Have low volatility strategies become too crowded/popular for their own good? Should low volatility be a tactical or a strategic position?

Past: A macro look at how the American economy has changed – which companies have risen or fallen from prominence and why?

Where are they now? The fate of 1990s & 2000s juggernauts

Present: Visualizing the Fortune 500; How the Fortune 500 reflects the American economy in 2017

Future: Persisting trends in the Fortune 500 and Global 500; How the US will fare internationally as reflected by the Global 500

Brian O'Keefe

International Editor & Assistant Managing Editor

Fortune

3:10 PM

Networking Break

3:40 PM Track C

Bond ETFs: The Next Phase

How to fulfil the appetite for yield. What new products are on the market? How well do the ETFS or ETNs match the underlying liquidity? Do the current crop of bond ETFs provide enough Yield for investors? Is the corresponding liquidity adequate? Are corporate yields juicy enough—or do investors need to look to more exotic options?

What is the volume of product being traded? Is volume a better indicator of segment growth or is product quantity? What is the deeper systemic meaning behind the growth of Liquid Credit instruments?

ETF v ETN? What role are “macro” products including CDX, TRS, and ETFs as an alternative to the OTC bond market? How do bond ETFs perform in more volatile markets?

Ronald DeLegge

Founder & Chief Portfolio Strategist

ETFguide.com

David Plecha

Global Head of Fixed Income

Dimensional Fund Advisors

Bill Ahmuty

Vice President | Head of SPDR ETF Fixed Income Group

State Street Global Advisors

Natalie Zahradnik

Executive Vice President, ETF Strategist

PIMCO

4:20 PM Track C

Commodities: More to it than Oil & Gas!

What is the relevancy of OPEC in a fracking world? How does their decisions impact the overall energy market? Where does the energy market stand with OPEC’s agreement to cut production? How do their decisions impact the global and domestic energy markets? How to look at the energy market holistically—it’s not just E&P. Pipe construction and fitting, helicopters, compression heads etc. And how to source investment opportunities within the ecosystem.

Metals—all that glitters is not gold, taking a look at Aluminum, Iron, Steel, Silver, Palladium etc. What are the best ways to invest in metals? Producers or in the end products? Agriculture—what are the big agricultural trends to invest in? Do you invest in grain or livestock commodities & futures or do you invest in corporate stocks?

Are country based baskets a good way to invest? Would that provide enough exposure to various commodities—but shield against any commodity specific volatility

Globally, water is a scarce resource, but the US has its own issues. Why is water an issue now and why will it continue to become more prevalent. What required infrastructure investments are needed for this essential asset, and what sectors will ride the wave?

Mark Shore

Chief Research Officer & Adjunct Professor

Shore Capital Research LLC, DePaul University

Kristen Winther

Director

Graniteshares

Dwijen Gandhi

Senior Director, Head of NYSE Indices

ICE Data Indices

Jeremy Goff

Managing Director, Social Infrastructure

Tortoise

John Love

President & CEO

USCF

5:00 PM

Unearthing The Evidence In Behavioral Economics

Meir Statman

Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance,

Santa Clara University

Barry Ritholtz

Chairman and Chief Investment Officer

Ritholtz Wealth Management

5:30 PM

Networking Cocktail Reception Courtesy Of:

6:30 PM

Day Two Concludes

7:00 AM

Closed-Door Advisor Breakfast Led By:

Josh Brown

Chief Executive Officer

Ritholtz Wealth Management

7:00 AM

Closed-Door Breakfast Discussion: An Audience with Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

President

Brockovich Research & Consulting

7:45 AM

Registration And Breakfast For All Conference Attendees

8:00 AM

Endowment Portfolios: A New Model for A New Market

College Endowments have become increasingly prominent as ETF/Passive Investors--what drives the fund flows into the space? What strategic purposes does passive strategies serve?

Where do ETFs and Indexing fit into the infamous Endowment model? What does ETF ownership given an activist oriented Endowment?

How are endowment approaching passive? Direct investing? Utilizing managers? Is there an appetite for product creation?

What needs do the endowments have that passive currently cannot fulfil

Marty Dirks

Board Member & Trustee

San José Federated Pension Plan

Thomas Heck

Chief Investment Officer

Ball State University Foundation

Doug MacBean

Managing Director

California Institute of Technology

Jonathan Shear

Chief Investment Officer

University of Utah

8:45 AM

Fireside Chat: Erin Brockovich on Activism, Environmentalism and the Keys to Success

Erin Brockovich

President

Brockovich Research & Consulting

Jane Wells

Journalist

NBCUniversal

9:25 AM

ESG & SRI: Moving Beyond the Acronyms and Finding Returns

By now you are familiar with the buzzwords, ESG & SRI. In this session we look beyond the six little letters and flesh out opportunities for out-performance.

What are the big trends that will determine an investment’s success? Which sort of vehicle should I allocate my money to? ETF? ETN? Index? How to feel about fees?

What is my investment horizon? How to appropriately gauge risk? Filtering out unicorns and chimeras—how to find a lasting opportunity?

With the growth in ETF usage, additional tactical ways of adding them to investors portfolios have cropped up. Hedging with ETFs--How to use ETFs in lieu of options, puts and other derivatives. Using ETFs to Short—what are the benefits? What are the risks?

Squeezing alpha out of beta—how passive management has increasingly employed sophisticated methods to beat benchmarks. How do we track the growth of sub type—and what direction will this trend move in next?

Will active managers embrace this en-masse to attract and retain clients? Will passive manager seek JVs with active managers, or will they opt to create more in house solutions? What criteria should an investor consider when selecting an active ETF manager or hybrid product?

Ian Toner

Chief Investment Officer

Verus Investments

David Garff

President & Chief Investment Officer

Accuvest Global Advisors

Mohannad Aama

‎Portfolio Manager & Asset Allocation Strategist

Beam Capital Management

Corey Hoffstein

Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer

Newfound Research

Jim Pritchard

Vice President

W.E. Donoghue

11:50 AM Track A

Client Mindshare & Growing Your Practice

How to bond and build with your clients--understanding their goals--creating product for them.

How to grow your client base--how to grow organically--picking new demographic.

Communication—preparing white papers, reports and extras. How to effectively deliver bad news. Finding the right marketing strategy and web presence.

Seeing the shared future—planning for and creating a lifetime relationship.

Joe Anthony

President, Financial Services

Gregory FCA Communications

Tom Balcom

Founder

1650 Wealth Management

Michael McNiven

Managing Director & Portfolio Manager

Cumberland Advisors

Larry Steinberg

Financial Quarterback

Financial Architects

Winnie Sun

Co-Founder

Sun Group Wealth Partners

Track B

11:10 AM Track B

Are You Overweight? An Index Methodology for Addressing Related Business Risk

When two or more companies’ earnings are affected by the same economic drivers, such as similar suppliers, customers, or product types, they share a “related business risk”

This risk can negatively impact a portfolio’s performance when the fundamentals of companies that share the same business risks are impacted at the same time (for example, due to regulatory change, customer trends, commodity shocks, or natural disasters)

Inadvertent overweighting of related business risk occurs regularly in capitalization-weighted and equal-weighted portfolios

Controlling for this risk can have a dramatic impact on portfolio performance

Stratification is a weighting methodology created to control for the inadvertent overweighting in sub populations

The purpose of this talk is the show that this methodology can be applied to portfolio management

Rory Riggs

CEO

Syntax

11:50 AM Track B

The Factor Zoo

Much like the natural world, the investing world is resplendent with diversity, in fact new species of factors (and animals) are discovered almost daily! In this session we take a closer look at the essential, inessential, obscure and under-loved factors that investors have to select from!

How to determine if a factor contains investment-worthy attributes? How to invest where the paper trail is short?

How low can you go? Determining the right beta coefficient for your portfolio. Is that even realistic in today’s market?

Our panel reveals their favorite factors, and which ones they could do without.

Morgan Housel

Partner

The Collaborative Fund

Jack Vogel

Managing Member

Alpha Architect

Andrew Berkin

Director of Research

Bridgeway Capital Management

Frederic Babu

CEO

Natixis Asset Management US

Mo Haghbin

Head of Product

OppenheimerFunds, Inc.

12:30 PM

Closing Keynote Presentation

Eduardo Repetto

Co-CEO & Co-CIO

Dimensional Fund Advisors

Barry Ritholtz

Chairman and Chief Investment Officer

Ritholtz Wealth Management

1:00 PM

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Information Management Network - Privacy Notice

Introduction - Who we are

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is
an international business-information group covering asset management,
price discovery, data and market intelligence, and banking and finance.
The group also runs an extensive portfolio of events for the telecoms,
financial and commodities markets.

For a full list of our brands and group companies, please click on this link.
Euromoney and its group companies are committed
to respecting the privacy of every person who visits, registers with or
subscribes to our websites, publications, events and other products or
services.

Euromoney is the primary data controller of personal data collected
through this website or that we may collect in different ways as
described in this Privacy Notice. If you are contacted by our other
group companies, they will also be controllers of your personal data.
This means that they are responsible for how your personal data is
used, just as we are. You may contact any of these companies directly,
or you can contact Euromoney by emailing dataprotectionofficer@euromoneyplc.com
or writing to the Data Protection Officer at Euromoney Institutional
Investor PLC, 8 Bouverie Street, London EC4Y 8AX, United Kingdom.

This Privacy Notice was updated on 23 May 2018

Our Approach to Your Privacy

This Privacy Notice outlines the information we may collect about
you in relation to your use of our products and services (“personal
data”). It also explains the legal rights that you have in
relation to your data and how you may exercise these rights.

Some of our group companies may collect and use personal data for
different purposes; those companies have their own websites and privacy
notices.

We will process your data for the following lawful purposes: with
your consent; to fulfil our obligations to you; and where there is a
legitimate interest to do so.

When possible, we rely on your consent to use your data for the
purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We also process personal
data to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, for example, when
you register for any of our services, subscribe to a publication,
sign-up for an event or purchase a product from us, we will need to
process some of your personal data. This will also include details of
the person/people responsible for payment (if different).

We may determine that processing your personal data serves both of
our legitimate interests. This is the case in relation to many of our
research, customer survey, sales, marketing and advertising activities
described in this Privacy Notice. These activities allow us to better
understand your requirements, which in turn enables us to provide you
with a better service. We review the bases for our processing decisions
carefully and you can object to these activities at any time (see the
“Your Rights” section of this Privacy Notice).

What Personal Data We Collect & Why

Our primary goal in collecting personal data from you is to give
you a relevant customised experience of our products and services.

Registration, Free Trials & Subscriptions

When you register with our website and/or sign up for a free
trial of our products or services, we may ask you to provide your name,
address, email address and telephone number, and details relevant to
your occupation or employer.

If you subscribe to one of our products or services, we will
also ask for payment details. Credit/debit card payments are processed
using a third party supplier and we do not retain the credit card data
(see the Third Party Sites of this Privacy Notice). Address details may
be shared with third party service providers engaged by us for order
fulfilment, delivery and payment collection. This personal data is used
by us to complete subscription requests.

Events & Conferences

If you have registered for an event through a group website we
may collect personal data including: name, job title, company, address,
telephone number and email.

This information is necessary so that we can complete your
registration for the event and provide you with relevant event
materials.

We may also provide delegate details (e.g. name, email) to
event sponsors who, subject to your consent, may contact you for their
own advertising and marketing purposes.

Advertising & Marketing

We use the personal data you provide us and which we collect
from you to inform you about similar products and services which we
provide. We may send you marketing communications that are sponsored by
our partners and which are targeted to your interests based on
information you have provided us such as job title, employer and/or
industry. If you have consented to receive information from other Euromoney
group companies, we may share your personal data with these
companies so that they can fulfil your request to receive marketing
materials in accordance with your preferences. We will not share your
personal data with any third parties for their own marketing purposes
unless you have provided your consent.

Each of the Euromoney group companies that may contact you is a
data controller in relation to the personal data that you have agreed
to share with them. If you have any questions or concerns, you may
contact the individual company, or us – using the contact details set
out in the “Who We Are” section.

You can opt out from receiving such materials at any time.

The personal data we may use for advertising and marketing
purposes includes your name, email address, job title, phone number,
company name/employer, geo location, postal address and data collected
using cookies and other similar technology (Please read our separate
Cookies Policy to find
out more about which cookies we use, how they work and how you can
control your cookie options).

Marketing materials are sent electronically, by post and we may
occasionally call you.

Online Targeted Advertising

We use targeted advertising on our websites to display
advertisements that are relevant to what we believe are your interests.
In order to deliver relevant advertisements, we use third parties to
deliver cookies that collect information about your IP address and how
you interact with our sites (e.g. browsing information, which articles
you have read etc.). This data is used by the third parties to
determine which advertisements may be of interest to you.

We may also share your personal data with third parties to
deliver targeted advertising to you on other websites (e.g. Twitter
Tailored Audiences or Facebook Custom Audiences). This could include
your email address, cookie data, and information obtained from third
parties. Third party cookies may also be used to enable us to target
advertisements to you on other websites that you visit.

Lead Generation and Scoring

We occasionally use the services of trusted third parties in
order to ensure that the personal data we use for advertising and
marketing purposes is accurate and up-to-date. To do this, we transfer
personal data of individual leads (such as name, email, job title,
location and phone number) to these third parties who conduct research
to verify the data – primarily against public information.

We also use algorithmic software technology to help us improve
the quality and relevance of marketing activities. The personal data
analysed by the software includes email address, phone number, job
title, address, purchase history and account information. This allows
us to provide meaningful offers that are relevant to your specific
profile.

Surveys, Market Research & Customer Feedback

We want to understand the needs of our readers and customers.
We may therefore use the information you provide us – including your
name and contact details – to contact you to request your feedback, or
to participate in our customer and market research.

Public forums, message boards and blogs

Some of the pages on our group websites may include message
boards, blogs or other facilities for generating content from users.
Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public
information and you should always be careful when deciding to post any
personal data. User generated content is also subject to our site
Terms & Conditions.

Business or Asset Sale

If we sell a business or assets we may need to disclose your
personal data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets.

If Euromoney, or any of our group companies is sold or sells
our assets or is acquired by a third party, then personal data about
our customers will be acquired by that third party. A transfer of your
personal data in these circumstances would be necessary so that the
services you have contracted for can still be delivered, or so that you
can continue to enjoy the benefits of our free products and services.
You will receive notice if a new controller assumes responsibility for
your personal data.

Additional Third Party Disclosures

We may disclose your personal data to other third parties in the
following situations:

To third party partners who help us by providing services
such as technology, marketing, advisory or other services. These third
parties only receive encrypted data and may only process personal data
to provide those services to us.

Where we are required by law or regulation to do so. In each
case we will seek, where practicable, to minimise the amount of data
that is disclosed.

If required to protect the rights and interests of other
users and/or Euromoney and its affiliates (including our employees,
agents and contractors), or as otherwise set out in our
Terms & Conditions.
This may include exchanging information with other
companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.

Email Tracking

We may include small pixel tags (small image files) within the
emails we send you in order to determine whether our emails are opened
and/or whether the hyperlinks inside our emails are clicked through. We
may also collect browser, location and the device used to engage with
our email communications. This information allows us to better
understand whether we are meeting our users’ needs and how we can
improve our communications. No other information is collected. You can
opt out of receiving our direct marketing emails either by following
the instructions in each email, or by contacting us (see the “Who
We Are” section of this Privacy Notice).

International Transfers

Some of the Euromoney group companies are based outside the
European Economic Area (EEA). If you have consented to being contacted
by our group companies, then the transfer of your personal data will be
made according to the terms of an international data sharing agreement
that contains obligations approved by European data protection
regulators. Any of our group companies that receive your personal data
will be co-controllers of that data, which means they may determine how
they process your personal data – although they may only use it for the
purposes for which it was shared, unless you are informed of new or
additional processing activities.

We may also transfer personal data to third party service providers
as described in this Privacy Notice which are located outside the EEA.
Where we conduct these transfers, we take all steps necessary to ensure
that your data is treated securely and in accordance with applicable
privacy legislation, either by only sending your personal data to
jurisdictions that provide an adequate degree of legal protection for
your data or by imposing approved contractual terms on these third
parties.

Retention Periods

We have a data retention policy that ensures we don’t use or store
your personal data for longer than necessary. We consider the following
issues to determine retention periods:

Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner or other regulatory
agency, or industry best practice recommendations;

The business rationale for collection and expiry of the purpose
for which personal data was collected;

Our ongoing ability to ensure the accuracy of the data; and

Legal and regulatory requirements.

We may occasionally need to keep personal data for either shorter
or longer periods than specified in our retention policy. In such
circumstances, application of the retention period to the data will be
temporarily suspended. The suspension of an applicable retention period
will be carried out in a manner that respects the rights and interests
of all persons concerned.

How You Can Set Your Data & Privacy Preferences

You can use our Preference Centre to select the topics that are of
interest to you so that we can send you publications and information
about our products and services that are especially relevant to you.
You can also choose the channels we use to contact you (email, phone,
post, etc.) and can also opt-out of receiving marketing communications.

Your Rights

You have certain rights in relation to your personal data which
include the following:

Access & Portability

You may request access to any personal data of yours for which
Euromoney is responsible as controller. Unless there are legal or
regulatory reasons for not doing so, we will confirm whether we process
any of your personal data and if we do, we will provide you with the
following information: the purposes of the processing, the categories
of personal data, any recipients of your personal data, the applicable
retention period and the data source. Copies of your personal data will
be made available to you in a structured, machine-readable format.

You may also request that we transfer the personal data that
you have submitted to us, to another controller, where it is
technically feasible for us to do so.

If you have consented to our processing of your personal data,
or if we are processing your personal data in order to fulfil our
contractual obligations to you, then you can submit a request that we
transfer your personal data to another data controller.

Rectification, Restriction, Objection

You have the right to request that Euromoney rectify any errors
in the personal data that we process. In some circumstances, you may
also be able to ask for the erasure of personal data, and/or request
that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You may also
object to the processing of your personal data for sales or marketing
purposes.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us by post or
email at the following addresses:

Euromoney will do our best to respond to any questions and
address any of your concerns. You are also able to register any
complaints regarding the processing of your personal data directly with
the UK Information
Commissioner.

Protecting Your Data

Euromoney is committed to keeping your personal data secure and we
will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect
your personal data from loss, unauthorised use, disclosure or
destruction. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we
cannot guarantee that any transmission of data is without risk. We have
therefore implemented information security policies and rules, staff
training on information security, and technical measures to ensure the
integrity of data that we have under our control.

All our employees, contractors and data processors (i.e. those
third parties that process personal data on our behalf) are required to
keep such data confidential and not to use it for any purpose other
than the performance of services we have requested.

Third Party Sites

Our site may contain links to other websites – including, for
example, providers of payment processing services. Euromoney is not
responsible for the privacy and data collection practices of third
party sites and we therefore recommend that you review the privacy
policies and terms of service of each site you visit.

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